Re: SCHED_IDLE patch is a source of DoS

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Wed, 11 Nov 1998 15:30:12 +0100 (CET)


On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:

>> > return 1;
>> > else
>> > return -1;
>> > }
>>
>> lock_depth is something very different ... It's not even a lock.
>
>Yes, I already feared this :(

I never examined lock/unlock_kernel(). Right now I don' t know how they
are used for. If somebody would say two (really only two) words about that
functions I could understand them faster when I' ll browse the C code.

Thanks if somebody will eventually say the two words here ;-).

Andrea Arcangeli

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